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ASCI: providing a forum for imaging scientists.
Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging Pub Date : 2018-03-10 , DOI: 10.1186/s40679-018-0054-9
Nigel D Browning 1
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Images are an essential part of the scientific discovery process in many research fields with the idiom “an image is worth a thousand words” holding true now more than ever. However, in many cases, these individual fields have developed their own methods for both acquiring and interpreting images based on new hardware and computational approaches, leading to a rapid divergence in what is considered state-of-the-art in imaging. This diversification means that in many cases, publications that could provide insights to imaging in general are published in field specific journals that are missed by the wider community. As the underlying mathematics for image interpretation is essentially the same, the goal of Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging (ASCI) is to provide a forum that can unite scientists working in the imaging field and lead to a rapid transition of new approaches from a single demonstration case into a widely implemented method.

ASCI is published by SpringerOpen, a suite of fully open access journals that is part of the wider Springer Nature group. The journal enjoys a growing readership with an ever-increasing number of papers receiving double-digit citations. The metrics of the journal as it enters its fourth year are consistent with the leading imaging journals in electron microscopy and are trending upward. As the journal matures, it is worth reflecting on where we came from and where we will be heading in the future.

Images are used all the time by biologists, clinicians, physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers to provide unique insights into the structures and/or the dynamic processes they are working to understand and control. While each type of image generates contrast through a different bio-chemical–physical process, the interpretation of the contrast map, i.e., the image, for any application uses similar mathematical methods—all methods use a mathematical definition of spatial resolution, for example. The aim of ASCI is, therefore, to provide a widely accessible forum whereby experts in imaging in different fields can demonstrate how they apply both traditional and new mathematical methods to interpret contrast in their images. In addition, any modification they make to their instrumentation to take advantage of the mathematical methods can be shared with experts in other fields with the goal of disseminating and employing new technologies over a wider sphere of influence.

In discussing images, we have to remember that almost everything can be classified as an image—even the text in this article can be analyzed using mathematical methods for image analysis. For ASCI, we are open to the publication of any discussion of image acquisition and analysis, but we anticipate that the majority of papers will focus on the analysis of 1-D (spectra), 2-D (traditional images), 3-D (tomograms) and energy filtered (hyperspectral) images acquired through the selected detection of scattered light, X-rays, electrons, ions, neutrons and protons. Methods that can cross-cut multiple applications are particularly welcome in the journal.

A key focus of ASCI is on publishing special thematic article collections. These collections illustrate a particular imaging area that is contributing to the development of imaging technologies in general. While the thematic collections show the state-of-the-art in a given field, they also act as vehicles to disseminate the approaches to the wider imaging community. In addition, these thematic series are often linked to workshops and/or feature review articles that can also show the historical trend in how the field developed and where the disruptive insights came from. Such collections also serve to showcase the areas that the journal is interested in publishing, providing a well-established context for all groundbreaking new imaging research to be published. If you feel there is an important development in imaging (or a workshop being held in this area) that could benefit from a thematic article collection, the editorial team welcomes your suggestions and will work with you to provide the best open access resource for publication of the work.

The strength of ASCI versus other journals lies in the diversity of its audience with a specific expertise in the area of imaging. By bringing together imaging specialists, we can create a united platform that exhibits a range of research from across the imaging. ASCI will allow our authors and readers both to establish connections within the community and to provide an outlet for their research, which would be impossible through other publications. We invite everyone to join us on our process of accelerating scientific discovery through state-of-the-art imaging methods.

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Browning, N.D. ASCI: providing a forum for imaging scientists. Adv Struct Chem Imag 4, 4 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40679-018-0054-9

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中文翻译:

ASCI:为成像科学家提供一个论坛。

在许多研究领域中,图像是科学发现过程中必不可少的部分,而“成千上万的图像”这一成语比以往任何时候都更为真实。但是,在许多情况下,这些领域都基于新的硬件和计算方法开发了自己的用于获取和解释图像的方法,从而导致在影像技术领域的快速分歧。这种多样化意味着,在许多情况下,可以为一般成像提供深入见解的出版物都在特定领域的期刊上发表,而这些期刊却被广大社区所忽视。由于图像解释的基础数学基本相同,因此高级结构和化学成像的目标 (ASCI)将提供一个论坛,该论坛可以使从事成像领域的科学家团结起来,并导致新方法从单个演示案例迅速过渡到广泛实施的方法。

ASCI由SpringerOpen发布,SpringerOpen是一整套完全开放获取的期刊,隶属于更广泛的Springer Nature集团。该期刊越来越受到读者的欢迎,越来越多的论文收到两位数的引用。进入第四年以来,该期刊的指标与电子显微镜领域领先的影像学期刊一致,并且呈上升趋势。随着期刊的成熟,值得反思我们来自哪里以及将来的发展方向。

生物学家,临床医生,物理学家,化学家,材料科学家和工程师一直在使用图像,以提供有关他们正在努力理解和控制的结构和/或动态过程的独特见解。尽管每种类型的图像都通过不同的生化-物理过程产生对比度,但是对于任何应用,对对比度图(即图像)的解释都使用类似的数学方法,例如,所有方法都使用空间分辨率的数学定义。因此,ASCI的目的是提供一个广泛访问的论坛,通过该论坛,不同领域的成像专家可以证明他们如何应用传统和新的数学方法来解释其图像中的对比度。此外,

在讨论图像时,我们必须记住,几乎所有内容都可以归类为图像-即使本文中的文本也可以使用数学方法进行图像分析。对于ASCI,我们欢迎公开发表任何有关图像采集和分析的讨论,但我们希望大多数论文都将集中于对1-D(光谱),2-D(传统图像),3-D的分析。通过选择检测散射光,X射线,电子,离子,中子和质子而获得的(断层图)和经过能量过滤(高光谱)的图像。可以跨多个应用程序的方法在期刊中特别受欢迎。

ASCI的重点是发布特殊的专题文章集。这些集合说明了一个特定的成像领域,该领域总体上为成像技术的发展做出了贡献。尽管主题集展示了特定领域的最新技术,但它们也充当了向更广泛的影像界传播方法的工具。此外,这些主题系列通常与研讨会和/或功能评论文章链接,这些文章也可以显示该领域如何发展以及破坏性见解来自何处的历史趋势。这些馆藏还有助于展示该期刊感兴趣的出版领域,为所有具有开创性的新影像学研究提供良好的背景。

与其他期刊相比,ASCI的优势在于其在影像领域具有特定专业知识的读者群体的多样性。通过聚集成像专家,我们可以创建一个统一的平台,展示来自整个成像领域的一系列研究。ASCI将允许我们的作者和读者在社区中建立联系并为他们的研究提供一个渠道,而其他出版物则不可能做到这一点。我们邀请所有人加入我们,通过最先进的成像方法加速科学发现。

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